Anglican Roman Catholic Unity sixty years on from Vatican II: What have we achieved?
Join us in the Abbey as the Reverend Canon Dr Jeremy Morris, the Church of England's National Advisor for Ecumenical Relations, gives the Annual Friends' Lecture for the Anglican Centre in Rome.
In the aftermath of Vatican II, and the beginning of the official Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue, hopes were high for a reunion of the two churches. Why has that not come about? What gains have there been, nonetheless? And what are the prospects for further progress towards unity? In reviewing the history of the last sixty years, Jeremy Morris will seek an answer to these questions.
The Revd Canon Dr Jeremy Morris is the Church of England’s National Adviser on Ecumenical Relations. He is a former Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Dean of Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge. He is a specialist in modern religious history, including the Anglican tradition, the ecumenical movement, and arguments about secularization, and has taught theology and church history in Cambridge for over twenty-five years. His books have included The High Church Revival in the Church of England: Arguments and Identities (2016), The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Vol. 4. Global Western Anglicanism c.1910-2000 (2017), and A People’s Church: A History of the Church of England (2022).
The Anglican Centre in Rome was founded in 1966 and its mission is to develop and flourish the friendship and deeper understanding between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. It has sought to live the hope of Christian unity by being a presence, by encouraging conversation, by worship, hospitality and education by the exchange of gifts and by initiating and encouraging: communicating fresh ideas and best practice.
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